Javier Bardem

The true-life narrative in “Before Night Falls” is profoundly powerful and undeniably affecting: A gay Cuban poet, inspired by the beauty of the island but brutally oppressed by the government, escapes to America only to find that the loss of his homeland is as crippling as the loss of freedom had been, and, stricken with AIDS, commits suicide shortly after finishing his masterwork memoir in 1990.

The tragedy that imbued much of Reinaldo Arenas’ life and his memoir, published in 1993, provide the heart and soul of Jorge Martin’s 2009 operatic interpretation, receiving only its second production thanks to Florida Grand Opera’s commitment to staging less familiar works along with...

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BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
The Florida Grand Opera stages this bio-opera based on Reinaldo Arenas’ posthumous 1992 memoir about persecution under the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. In 2000, the book was...

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Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang.
Battle of the Sexes This enjoyable and entertaining film, with the gifted and innately likable actors Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang.
Battle of the Sexes This enjoyable and entertaining film, with the gifted and innately likable actors Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang.
Battle of the Sexes This enjoyable and entertaining film, with the gifted and innately likable actors Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean

Movie recommendations from critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang.
Battle of the Sexes This enjoyable and entertaining film, with the gifted and innately likable actors Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean

Editor’s note: Major plot spoilers below. Though we maintain this movie is innately unspoilable.‎‎‎
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"It" does it again.
Despite dropping 51% in earnings in its second weekend in theaters, the Warner Bros.' Stephen King adaptation kept the top spot in this week's box office charts, surpassing analysts' projections of $55 million by $5 million for a...

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Darren Aronofsky wants to issue you an apology.
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